Antalya, Turkey - NATO and the European Union on Thursday vowed to tighten cooperation against the "hybrid warfare" that the West accuses Russia of using in the battle for influence in the former Soviet Union.
NATO has charged Russia with carrying out "hybrid warfare" in the conflict in Ukraine by combining classical military techniques with unconventional guerrilla tactics, as well as non-military means like cyber-attacks and propaganda.
"Hybrid warfare combines different types of threats, including conventional, subversion and cyber," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after a two-day meeting of the military alliance in the southern Turkish city of Antalya.
The meeting was attended by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, as the military alliance and the 28-member bloc seek to sharpen their cooperation and intelligence sharing.
Mogherini "and I have asked our teams to intensify NATO-EU cooperation in countering hybrid warfare," Stoltenberg said.
"We will ensure that the strategies we are developing are complementary, so that we can work together quickly and effectively in the case of a hybrid threat against any of our members."
He said the aim of the cooperation is "that in the event of a hybrid threat, there is clarity over who does what."
AFP
